Excerpt from Labor and Reconstruction in Europe The modern struggle for Democracy began with the demand of the nobles for the right to share with the king the privileges and responsibilities of government. That was followed by the middle or commercial classes insisting upon the same privilege. Later the workers demanded a voice in the affairs of state. By the middle of last century the people of the United States had achieved almost universal manhood suffrage. Since then those intrusted with the affairs of government have been responsible to all of the people for their acts rather than to any one group. But the change came so gradually and with so little of upheaval and conflict that it took the dangers and duties of a great world war to bring home to the masses of the people a full realization that they are the real power and final authority in a Democracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Reconstruction of Europe With the reaction particularism, or insistence on the prerogatives of the individual states as opposed to general interests, as was to be expected, again asserted itself in force. Even to refer to a unified Germany was accepted as a proof of an ill-affected mind. In lieu of this the dogma that all German history pointed to the development of the different races was proclaimed in all the dialects of the father land. Even the military convention entered into by some of the minor states with Prussia came to be regarded as a contravention of the constitution of the Confederation. Of all the creations of the revolutionary years, one only was now extant, namely, the so-called national fleet of nineteen small vessels. The Danish war had Shown the necessity for a strong German fleet. But who was to be its owner? After interminable disputes between Prussia, Austria, and the second-rate states, the Confederate diet finally, on April 2, 1852, decreed the dissolution of the German fleet. On the motion of the Oldenburg state-councillor, Hannibal Fischer, the ownerless national navy was brought to the hammer, Prussia becoming the purchaser of its most available vessels. This was the act by which the Con federate diet, amid the derisive laughter of all Germany, celebrated its rehabilitation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Decadence of Europe: The Paths of Reconstruction This book is primarily an act of moral sincerity. For several years, both in foreign politics and in international relationships, the greatest violence has reigned and the greatest disorder holds sway. The victorious nations are extolling the very thing they once execrated. They are committing acts more cruel and more insane than those which, during the war, they declared to be the object of the enemy. One thing alone is changed: the grasping of monopolies, the acts of violence, the follies and the crimes are being committed in the name of victorious democracy. Meanwhile the whole of Europe is in a state of decadence. It has ceased to be the continent which once controlled the production and the trade of the world it has seen the decline of its vast expansion and the pride of its intellectual life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The New Europe: Some Essays in Reconstruction The first six of the essays it contains appeared serially in issues of the N atz'on, from May to Septem ber 1915, and I have to thank the editor for his kind permission to allow their reappearance in the present form, as well as my publisher, Mr. J. M. Dent, for the promptitude with which he has given the permission effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.